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  • FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
    FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
    DAPHNE DU MAURIER
    The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, anything to alter the tedium of her days. But there is another Dona who longs for a life of honest love - even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees London for remote Navron, finding there a hunted pirate. ...
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  • THE INTERIOR CASTLE
    THE INTERIOR CASTLE
    TERESA OF AVILA
    The acclaimed modern translation of St. Teresa of Avila's classic book on spiritual awareness and guidance Celebrated for almost five centuries as a master of spiritual literature, 16th-century saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most beloved religious figures in history. Overcome one day by a mystical vision of a crystal castle with seven chambers, each representing a differen...
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  • TUNNEL VISION
    TUNNEL VISION
    KEVIN BREATHNACH
    Tunnel Vision is a book unlike any other. A portrait of the narrator's relationships in his mid-twenties; a memoir based in Dublin that follows his travels to Paris, Gwangju, Munich, and Madrid; a reckoning with addictions to drugs and pornography; a tragi-comedy of sexual repression; the autobiography of a compulsive liar; a meditation on artifice and honesty. Yet this intimac...
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  • THE END
    THE END
    LEMONY SNICKET
    Dear Reader, There is nothing to be found in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution... ...
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  • A MIDNIGHT PASTRY SHOP CALLED HWAWOLDANG
    A MIDNIGHT PASTRY SHOP CALLED HWAWOLDANG
    LEE ONHWA
    *Available to pre-order now* A dessert from the Hwawoldang is a ticket to a new life . . . 'I adored this book . . rich, emotional and engaging' ***** Reader Review 'Amazingly beautiful and just what I needed at this point in my life' ***** Reader Review 'Heart-warming and full of gratitude and happiness. I loved it. And the Korean pastries all sounded delicious' ***** Read...
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  • STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO
    STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO
    HIROMI KAWAKAMI
    A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' Stylist Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, r...
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  • LITTLE DISASTERS
    LITTLE DISASTERS
    SARAH VAUGHAN
    From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal - a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. ...
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  • NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER
    NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER
    JEANETTE WINTERSON
    The dazzling and genre-bending new collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestseller Jeanette Winterson'Spine-chillingly good' iNEWS'Winterson the artist at her most potent' GUARDIANOur lives are now digital, exposed and always-on. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • VIOLENCE
    VIOLENCE
    SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
    The premise of Zizek's theory is that the subjective violence we see - violence with a clear identifiable agent - is only the tip of an iceberg made up of 'systemic' violence, which is essentially the catastrophic consequence of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems. With the help of Marx, Engels, Sartre, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Brecht and many more, Z...
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  • THE POPPY WAR
    THE POPPY WAR
    R. F. KUANG
    Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials...
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  • MISINTERPRETATION
    MISINTERPRETATION
    LEDIA XHOGA
    There was a unicycle hanging from a metal rack, its lemon-coloured wheel hovering above my head. The last thing I remembered was that party in Manhattan, somewhere in the West Village, drinking odd-looking cocktails and eating walnut cookies . . . Everything seemed vague. In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients' struggles, de...
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  • LEGENDBORN
    LEGENDBORN
    TRACY DEONN
    SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. "I love the feeling of a magical world existing just beneath the surface of our own and this story gave me everything I wanted: incredible characters, ancient lore and secret societies - all grounded in our very real, very flawed world . . ." -Leigh Bardugo, author of Shadow and Bone An explosive fantasy debut that is taking TikTok by sto...
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  • HITWOMAN
    HITWOMAN
    ELSIE MARKS
    'Killing Eve meets Bridget Jones' Crime Monthly 'This fun, quirky read really hits the mark!' The Sun She always gets her man ... but has Maisie Baxter met her match? Maisie Baxter is determined not to let her job as an ethical hitwoman get in the way of her social life, but it's tough when your hours are extremely unpredictable and you can't share any details of your day. So...
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  • DIANARAMA
    DIANARAMA
    ANDY WEBB
    REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME: THE TRUE STORY OF THE DECEPTION OF PRINCESS DIANA 'A STORY WE WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO READ' PATRICK JEPHSON, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRINCESS DIANA 'AN IMPORTANT AND FORENSIC EXAMINATION' CHARLES SPENCER The death of Princess Diana in August 1997 was one of the most shocking events in recent history. Many events surrounding the tragedy have been shr...
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  • THE BOOK OF LIFE
    THE BOOK OF LIFE
    DEBORAH HARKNESS
    *THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BELOVED NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ALL SOULS SERIES, THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER.* 'My favourite book of all time' Reader Review, ? ? ? ? ? 'This book was pure perfection' Reader Review, ? ? ? ? ? 'Absolutely phenomenal . . . It was completely spellbinding' Reader Review, ? ? ? ? ? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES N...
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  • A MASTER OF DJINN
    A MASTER OF DJINN
    P. DJÈLÍ CLARK
    WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Clever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it' S. A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly n...
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  • THE DRAGONS KEEPER
    THE DRAGONS KEEPER
    M. L. BURNS
    Azahara was no stranger to pain.In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Battle of Sunfall, Azahara's world crumbles, leaving her with nothing but time on her side. She sets forth on a journey to the Isle of Ilkiz. Once home to the mighty Ilkiz herself and the Power of Dragons, the Isle becomes her sought after refuge and the crucible for her fate, where every step forward teeters o...
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  • THE APOTHECARY DIARIES 01 (MANGA)
    THE APOTHECARY DIARIES 01 (MANGA)
    NATSU HYUUGA
    After breaking a "curse" on the imperial heirs, a palace servant with training in herbal medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster...and right into the thick of palace intrigue in this lushly illustrated period mystery series!Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life o...
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  • THE LITTLE PRINCE
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
    The Little Princeis a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the...
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  • CITY OF DRAGONS
    CITY OF DRAGONS
    ROBIN HOBB
    Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the third instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. The dragon keepers and fledgling dragons have discovered a route to the lost city of Kelsingra but there is one problem: they need to be able to fly to cross the treacherous waters and ente...
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  • THE SIEGE OF TROY
    THE SIEGE OF TROY
    THEODOR KALLIFATIDES
    In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Gr...
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  • THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
    THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
    SPENCER REECE
    An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. "This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as redemption." —Colm ToíbínThe Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that...
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  • EINSTEIN
    EINSTEIN
    WALTER ISAACSON
    The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the myst...
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  • DAUGHTER OF THE SIREN QUEEN
    DAUGHTER OF THE SIREN QUEEN
    TRICIA LEVENSELLER
    Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa ...
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  • I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN
    I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN
    KHASHAYAR J. KHABUSHANI
    'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching, honest and riveting. A book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break one Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely reco...
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  • FRANCO'S PIRATES
    FRANCO'S PIRATES
    E. R. HOOTON
    "Franco's Pirates is an essential read for anyone interested in the Spanish Civil War, naval operations between the World Wars, and the concept of blockade." -- The NYMAS ReviewThe Spanish Civil War was won and lost upon the high seas. It was won because the Nationalists had an uninterrupted flow of men and materials while Republican sea lanes were attacked by Fascist warships,...
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  • TIME'S WITNESS
    TIME'S WITNESS
    ROSEMARY HILL
    From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history, costume history, the...
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  • THE NEVERENDING STORY
    THE NEVERENDING STORY
    MICHAEL ENDE
    "Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. One day, while immersed in the pages of an old book, he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but it's a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian and so begins a dazzling, magical adventure . . ."--Back cover. ...
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  • PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
    PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
    EMILY HENRY
    SET TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX RELEASE STARRING EMILY BADER AND TOM BLYTH! Two friends. Ten trips. Their last chance to fall in love... ------ 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us 'A gorgeous romance' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show 'Loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop 12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet....
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  • THE GREAT EXPEDITION
    THE GREAT EXPEDITION
    ANGUS KONSTAM
    In 1585, war between Spain and Elizabethan England was all but inevitable. Consequently, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster proposed a pre-emptive strike designed to paralyse Spain's economy by striking at the Spanish Main - the heart of her overseas empire. The Elizabethan "Sea Dog" Sir Francis Drake was selected to lead this all-important raid. During the summer of 1585 an expeditio...
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